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>>> this hour, nbc news can project that mitt romney has won the presidential primary in texas and that he has thereby clinched the delegates he needs for the nomination for president. and history will show forever that he spent the evening with donald trump, amid mr. trump's conspiracy theory of the president of the united states being secretly foreign. that is your history forever. now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell". >> wow, talk about a coincidence, the biggest liar of the presidential campaign is raising money tonight in vegas, with america's biggest pathological liar. mitt romney accepts and plays the trump card. >> doubling down vegas style. >> honeymoon in vegas. >> mitt romney's fund-raiser. >> a $2 million las vegas fund-raiser. >> with donald trump tonight. >> i want to say thank you to donald trump for his endorsement. >> donald trump. donald trump. >> why? >> why? >> why? >> the place of birth movement. >> you are courting disaster. >> this is about raising money. >> mitt romney is not going to have trouble raising money. >> how do you let a g

mitt romney accepts and plays the trump card. >> doubling down vegas style. >> honeymoon in vegas. >> mitt romney's fund-raiser. >> a $2 million las vegas fund-raiser. >> with donald trump tonight. >> i want to say thank you to donald trump for his endorsement. >> donald trump. donald trump. >> why? >> why? >> why? >> the place of birth movement. >> you are courting disaster. >> this is about raising money. >> mitt romney is not going to have trouble raising money. >> how do you let a guy, donald trump. >> chair a $2 million fund-raiser who thinks that the president of the united states is illegitimate. what is the benefit here? >> i just don't even -- >> i thought your introduction was highly inappropriate. >> there is some very nasty undertones. >> he was born in kenya. >> this is the most obnoxious swill. >> a kind of feud between donald trump and george will. here's how it standarded. >> the cost of appearing with this bloviating. >> george will may be the dumbest and most overrated political commentator of all time. >> i don't understand the benefit, what is romney seeking? >

election -- >> the so called three es. >> employment. >> mitt romney promises that his policies would knock down unemployment to 6%. >> 6% and perhaps a little lower. >> to 6% or lower. >> no matter who's elected, i predict unemployment is at 6% in four years. >> if it takes advantage of our natural gas and oil and coal. >> it is what he's for. >> education. >> millions of our kids are getting a third world education. >> if you're going to talk about education -- >> this is the civil rights war of our era. >> the election will be decided in a dozen battleground states. the president has a narrow lead in three of them. 48% is enough to put the president ahead of romney, in florida, virginia and ohio. >> the president has been on the attack. >> he's saying, well i 25 years in the private sector. with a special understanding of how our economy works. he's hoping you don't remember the last time we tried it his way. >> good evening, i'm martin bashir in for lawrence o'donnell, tonight on the campaign trail, president obama rallied support in iowa where he pressured mitt romney to explain how ba

ran our business i wouldn't want him there. >> team romney responds with a video that shows bain's success. >> when others shied away, mitt romney's leadership stepped up. >> who is right? it doesn't matter. the focus is on bain, right where romney doesn't want it to be. ♪ >> mitt romney says he saved bain and company. but he didn't tell you on the day that he took over, he had his predecessor fire hundreds of employees, or the way bain was rescued was with a bailout. >> president obama's new ad attacking his g.o.p. rival. mitt romney looks old school, doesn't he? it's actually not an obama ad. it's a ad from late senator ted kennedy campaign from 1994. now let's take a look at the latest obama ad. >> i was devastated. he makes me angry. those guys were all rich. they all had more money than they'll ever spend, yet they didn't have the money to take care of the very people that made the money for them. >> bain capital walked away with a lot of money. believe me, mitt romney is a job destroyer. >> 18 years later nothing has changed. mitt romney still being slammed for his dubiou

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matthews in washington, bad men with dirty angry money. the mitt romney super pacs decided to get as dirty as possible, as soon as possible. tonight new york's front page shows the billionaire joe rickets was looking to link mitt romney with joe wright. he said it was merely a suggestion, but that suggestion came with a campaign plan with photos. mitt romney says he repudiates this campaign and accuses president obama with it. plus mitt romney hearts bill clinton? romney said he has more in common with bill clinton than president obama does. really? clinton supports the health care law, supports financial reform and he champions tax rates that obama says will destroy the economy. the only thing clinton and romney has in common is romney has the job that clipt on wants. >>> are catholic conservatives trying to draw liberal comics of what they want. chuck todd's nbc political director and correspondent major gary covers the national journal. the "new york times" wrote a wealthy super pac backer. the reason is to show president obama really is a radical after all. our plan is to do e

. let met start with the biggest question of this campaign so far. is there any level mitt romney will not descend, any level he will not go, to get kwb when a calls, the 50.1% of vote he needs to win ppt answer is, just watch. he went down for norquist for tax policy. down to the religious right on the we know best to do list and now to the lowest level of american politics, the crud at the bottom, nativism. no-nothingism. i'm talking about the scum of birtherism and its grand pubah itself. we will talk about that mr. 1% will do anything to beat 50%. lets start with this, george will. this sunday on abc george will question, what mitt romney has to gain by associating himself with donald trump. let's watch will in action. >> i do not understand the cost benefit here. the costs are clear. what voter will vote for him because he is seen with donald trump? the cost of appearing with this bloviating ignoramus is obvious to me. this is redundant evidence that if your iq is very low you can still protrude into american politics. >> donald trump again wouldn't back off the birther issue

romney has to gain by associating himself with donald trump. let's watch will in action. >> i do not understand the cost benefit here. the costs are clear. what voter will vote for him because he is seen with donald trump? the cost of appearing with this bloviating ignoramus is obvious to me. this is redundant evidence that if your iq is very low you can still protrude into american politics. >> donald trump again wouldn't back off the birther issue the same day he plans on holding a fund-raiser today for mitt romney in vegas. let's listen. >> i walk down the street and people are screaming, please don't give that up. look. a publisher came out last week and had a statement about obama given to them by obama when he was doing a book as a young man a number of years ago in the 90s, born in kenya, and raised in indonesia. i mean, this was -- this is from obama. now amazingly the publisher oh, we made a mistake. i don't think life works that way now. is it the most important thing? in a way it is, because you're not allowed to be president if you're not born in the country. but let'

blame on that but we'll pass on that for argument's sake here. the problem is romney cannot win those states with the differential he's running with latinos and hispanics. these are states with -- all three of those have sizable enough minority representation, particularly with latinos, that you can't lose that group 68-19 or whatever -- depending on what poll you're looking at now, and win those three states. so give him one of them. that means obama's got to pick off one of the tossup states that he's now heading every single one of. some by two. some by seven. but he's got to win every single -- and so you get into -- that's why i'm not -- look, this is going to be fought out on the issues on going forward, going back. he hasn't done anything in the economy. we've lost jobs, we've created jobs. we're going to have all that fight. and there's going to be plenty of money on both sides to have that fight. and it's going to be the most negative election that we have ever seen. why? because you've got a president with an approval rating of 47. below 50. you've got a congress on bo

stand up, we will not stand alone. >> mitt romney tries to go on the offensive. >> who would have guessed we will look back on the carter years as the good old days? >> newt gingrich gives new meaning to the phrase "lukewarm endorsement." >> is mitt romney conservative enough? my answer is simple -- compared to barack obama? >> no crying in baseball, no lying to congress. order clemmons on file for perjury -- roger clemens on trial for perjury. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- secretary of state hillary clinton, long an advocate of human rights, rights in china for an economic summit only to find herself caught up in human rights crisis. a blind chinese dissident under house arrest slips past guards under cover for his and seeks refuge at the u.s. embassy in beijing. then at the pleading of his life, chen guangcheng believes the embassy and goes to a hospital. after talking to family and friends, he is begging to leave the country and he wants clinton to take him with her on a her airplane. in politics, a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. >> if

is not -- >> i didn't state a deal. if there's a deal, that's another story. >> if romney wins, congress will do something, some holding action, that is congenial to what he wants to do. the brit al environment will change. and what you want to do is sensible tax system, lower rates, less deductions and less loopholes, spending some reasonable prudent spending restraints, and then reforming entitlements over the long- term. you want to do what paul ryan and mitt romney are talking about. >> you think this electioneering is dangerous in view of the eurozone and china faltering a little? >> china faltering a lot. euro zone on the edge of a cliff with a very high probable. >> except germany. >> . >> yes but it does make the difference. the entire southern part of europe is hanging by a thread in terms of -- a major depression in that part of world. having said that, i happen to be in favor of tax cuts on people like pat buchanan and myself, and not in that order, of course. i think it's absolutely essential that everybody contribute to the solution of the fiscal problem that we are in. however, the

night. >> today after the wash post broke a story about mitt romney bullying a gay student in high school, mitt rom neney announcee is now in favor of something gay. >> the president clarified his position on same sex marriage. >> i think same sex couples should get married. >> joe biden. >> i am vice president. >> did the vice president really set this policy. >> the president sets the policy. >> i think biden helped him here. >> everyone is trying to figure out what the political consequences will be. >> reaction has been coming in fast and furious. >> marriage is the union of one man and one woman. >> i don't favor civil union or gay marriage. >> this is the boy that i knew. >> mitt romney is treading lightly. >> when he was playing in high school. >> a student who later came out as gay says romney would taunt him. >> i did some dumb things. >> when he spoke out in class he would say atagirl. >> prep school bully. >> ti not. >> foes of gay marriage are 32-0. >> people in california voted to ban gay marriage. >> you mentioned north carolina. >> if you're gay you want to get marri

matthews, in washington tonight, bad men with dirty angry among. the guys funding the pro-romney super pacs are getting as dirty as possible as soon as possible. joe ricketts was looking to run adds linking obama with reverend wright. he said it was only a suggestion, but that came in a 54-page professionally bound campaign plan with color photos. mitt romney says he repudiates this, and then etch-a-sketch moment, accuses obama of character assassination. this from a guy who destroyed his opponents with negative personal adds, and romney hearts bill clinton? he says he has more in common with clinton than obama because. he champions tax rates that romney invest will destroy the family. the only thing they have in common is that clinton once had the job that romney wants, and there's a major effort from keeping kathleen sebelius from speaking tomorrow at georgetown. and what we should do if we really want to reduce the number of abortions in this county trp. we begin with dirty angry money. we have chuck todd with us, and major garrett. the "new york times" reports on a poe poe sa

for us, those mitt romney calls the successful. government of by and for the economic elite. is that what we want? if you listen, this is precisely what the man from bain is now out there selling. "the ed show" with ed schultz starts now. >> good evening, americans. welcome to "the ed show" from new york. mitt romney's education tour hit a brick wall in the city of brotherly love today. parents and teachers rejecting his plans to privatize schools and line the pockets of his fat cat friends. >> i'm told about the success of these institutions and this institution particularly. mitt romney's made-up schools that are not succeeding. the mayor tells him to get out. >> i don't understand why he's here today. >> sam stein on mitt romney's ugly day in west philly. rick scott is the n new katherine harris. democrats are mounting a new defense against a massive voter suppression effort in florida. i'll talk to the congressman leading the effort. congressman mike coffman is now changing his excuse for attacking the president. >> i misspoke and apologize. >> scott walker is going nati

for the media group. this sunday on abc, george will questioned what mitt romney has to gain with associating himself with donald trump. let's watch him in action. >> i do not understand the cost benefit here. the costs are clear. the benefits, what voter is going to vote for him because he's seen with donald trump? the costs of a with this i ignoramus is beyond me. he says if you're low, you can still intrude on american politics. >> donald trump plans to hold a fundraiser today in las vegas for mitt romney. >> i was walking down the street and people are screaming, please, don't give that up. a publisher came out last week and had a statement about obama given to them by obama when he was doing a book as a young man a number of years ago, in the '90s, born in kenya and raised in indonesia. this was a statement. this was from obama. now, amazingly, the publishers only made a mistake. i don't think life works that way. now, is it the most important thing? in a way it is, because you're not allowed to be president if you're not born in the country, but let's see what happens. i'm not fanning f

. >> this is the boy that i knew. >> mitt romney is treading lightly. >> when he was playing in high school. >> a student who later came out as gay says romney would taunt him. >> i did some dumb things. >> when he spoke out in class he would say attagirl. >> prep school bully. >> it's not. >> foes of gay marriage are 32-0. >> people in california voted to ban gay marriage. >> you mentioned north carolina. >> if you're gay you want to get married in north carolina. you'll just have to pretend your cousins. >> vast majority of the american public really question his character. >> a gutsy move. >> i think he responded very strongly. >> same sex couples should be able to get married. >> a dream come true right now. >> joining me now alex wagner the host of msnbc's now and chris hayes the host of up with chris hayes. it was a difficult news day for mitt romney with that report about high school bullying, in particular, bullying of a gay student. let's listen what mitt romney said later in the day today on fox news about something gay that he actually approves of. >> my preference would be to ha

with color photos. mitt romney says he repudiates this, and then etch-a-sketch moment, accuses obama of character assassination. this from a guy who destroyed his opponents with negative personal ads, and romney hearts bill clinton? he says he has more in common with clinton than obama because. he champions tax rates that romney invest will destroy the family. the only thing they have in common is that clinton once had the job that romney wants, and there's a major effort from keeping kathleen sebelius from speaking tomorrow at georgetown. and what we should do if we really want to reduce the number of abortions in this county trp. we begin with dirty angry money. we have chuck todd with us, and major garrett. the "new york times" reports on a proposal from a republican strategist to dredge up jeremiah wright. the point was to show he really is a radical after all. here is some of the language. our plan is to do exactly what john mccain would not let us do. show the world how barack obama's opinions were misguided. chuck todd, front page placement, the times played this baby big toda

with the biggest question in this campaign so far. is there any level to which mitt romney will not descend, any level he will not take himself to in order to scrounge for the 50.1% vote he needs to win. his answer, just watch. down to the religious rite on their we know best to do list, and now he's going to the lowest level of american politics, the crud at the very bottom, nativism. know nothingism. i'm talking about the birtherrism and the grand poo-bah himself. the mr. 1% will do almost anything, promise anything to beat 50%. howard feinman and the director for the media group. this sunday on abc, george will questioned what mitt romney has to gain with associating himself with donald trump. let's watch him in action. >> i do not understand the cost benefit here. the costs are clear. the benefits, what voter is going to vote for him because he's seen with donald trump? the costs of a with this i ignoramus is beyond me. he says if you're low, you can still intrude on american politics. >> donald trump plans to hold a fundraiser today in las vegas for mitt romney. >> i was walking down the st

money at a george clooney bash. after embracing the cause of same-sex marriage. while mitt romney apologizes for pranks he may have done almost 50 years ago. >>> did either campaign think the week was going to play out this way when it started? we'll talk about that. plus, running with romney. the campaign says they are looking at a, quote, pretty significant group for vice president. but this morning we're joined by the last person who made the cut, the former lieutenant governor, what is it like to be vetted and sharing the ticket with mitt romney? >>> and jpmorgan reports a $2 billion loss over the last two weeks. jamie dimon says errors and bad judgment were to blame. is this the end of griping against the dodd frank financial reform law? good morning from washington. it's a busy friday. na 11th, 2012. my name is chuck todd and this is "the daily rundown." knit romney has learned that every section of your life is open to inspection, especially high school. a washington post story on his high school years at the prestigious cranbrook school in detroit, classmates describing hi

, which was clearly over a month ago -- >> romney and the super pac spent $20 million. >> are you calling mitt romney a liar? >> yes. >> how does newt gingrich get all of that back? >> there was a hot and heavy campaign. >> newt gingrich showed a lot of great bravado. >> we will have the first permanent space on the moon. >> he's an idea person. >> it's a gun a glower rouse ride for you. >> the game is not over yet. >> you've chosen to start the debate. >> can we stop the bias baloney? >> the odds are very low. >> we're going to go all the way to tampa. >> newt, we knew you. [ laughter ] >> today is a first in presidential campaign history. a history that we will soon forget. >> in a real sense, we can be free of radical islam, saudi kings, and chinese bond holders. >> and we are now free of newt gingrich because he apparently recently learned to count, he is no longer so confident about his future. >> i'm going to be the nominee. >> we are going to win and we will be in tampa as the nominee in august. >> by the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon. >>

is that president obama and mitt romney are going at it over who is best qualified to deal with it. >> if your main argument is i know how to grow the economy is i know how to make a lot of money for investors, then you're missing what this job is about. >> the president's experience has been exclusively in politics and as a community organizer. both of those are fine areas of endeavor. right now we have an economy in trouble. chris: a new poll shows the country fears the problems are greater than the usual ups and downs of the business cycle. 2/3 say their children will not live as well as they have. looking inside those numbers. 72% of white women, a group that many believe is the most crucial swing group out there think their kids won't live as well. here is a romney ad by karl rove's superp.a. c. >> i always loved watching the kids play basketball. i still do, even though things have changed. it's funny, they can't find jobs to get their career started and i can't afford to retire and now we're all living together again. i supported president obama because he spoke so beautifully. obama added a

move on. our main story toaps focuses on the man who defeated newt gingrich. as you know, mitt romney is mormon. that's actually, that's kind of unnecessary-- he's mormon. there's nothing-- there's nothing frightening-- there's nothing frightening about him being a mormon. okay, you've over-corrected. that was an over-correction. i should have qualified that statement. there's nothing frightening about romney being a mormon to me. apparently, some in the republican party's evangelical base think otherwise. >> mitt romney is a good moral person but he's not a christian. mormonnism is not christianity. it has always been considered a cult by the main street of christianity. >> most christians would not recognize mormonnism as part of the christian faith. >> what this would mean for the spiritual health of the united states of america if a worshiper of a false god occupied the white house. >> jon: yes! you would never want someone in the white house who worshipped a different god than you. if i may, as a jew-- ( laughter ) you get used to it. ( laughter ) ( applause ) but of course, tho

. >> was there a sit down between mitt romney and sheldon who our viewers know personally wrote checks to keep newt gingrich going for quite a while? >> he and his family wrote $21.5 million to that superpac that was supporting newt gingrich which was like trying to win mega bucks mptd but sheldon has a personal friendship. he did sit down at lunch time with mitt romney. i think he will support mitt romney not in a personal full throated way that he supported newt gingrich. the question is how much money he will put out there. he told me a few weeks ago that he didn't like the attention that he got with the newt gingrich support. i think he is going to go more underground with his money which is giving to something like carl rove's group. >> of course, the opposite of underground would be donald trump who kind of stole the show yesterday. and he just can't stop calling into tv shows and talking about the birth certificate issue. let me play for you what he said on cnn yesterday. >> many people that don't agree with that birth certificate. they don't think it is authentic. >> i don't know when you s

: good evening. i'm bret baier. vice president joe biden hammered away at romney private equity career at bain capital. meanwhile, cory booker was in full damage control mode after he called attacks like those nauseating. chief political correspondent carl cameron has the fall-out from the campaign trail. >> what romney says we're bashing, we're bashing private capital. that is not true. >> campaigning in new hampshire, joe biden called privateect witty investment legitimate business but not experience to be president. >> your job as president is to pro mote the common good. that doesn't mean private equity guys are bad guys. they're not. but that no more qualifies you being a president than being a plumber. by the waif, there are a lot of awful smart plumbers. >> biden stuck to party line. as cory booker tried to deal with the fall-out of straying off message sunday branding the attacks on private eck petty nauseating. >> i'm upset i am used by the g.o.p. this way. >> demonstrators welcomed biden to new hampshire with signs and the republican national party launched online signature d

romney, let's play "hardball." i'm chris matthews, back in washington, leading off tonight, two of the tax cutters, who is this man the republicans want as their president, is he someone of deep purpose of useful purpose. would he simply be there to put his signature on the tax cuts. would it be like w., a mouth piece for the hogs. just a guy with a useful test nation. why did the openly gay spokesman have to quit? he is openly gay, and the family values types were having none of it. plus hillary clinton and the extraordinary drama in beijing. she is out front in a way we have not seen in her nearly four years of diplomacy. s it's her chance to be right out front in the front pages if things go wrong. why are the republicans so frantic over the bin laden victory lap? simply they have been the daddy party for the last 60 years and can't afford to lose ground. what's left? hope that the economy tanks for them. let me finish with if mitt romney is a genuine art kal or a vessel that will be used once he is in office. michael steele is the chairman of the republican party, howard fin

to major corporations. what can we do for you? >> and now, "bbc world news." >> mitt romney is on the brink of clinching the republican nomination for the white house. the polls have just closed in the decisive texan primary. in syria of violence must up, not tomorrow. >> this been the night and tense after a earthquake. it has claimed 16 lives. it is not in the morning and singapore. >> it is 2:00 in the morning in london. welcome to newsday. polls have just closed and the american state of texas. if the predictions are true, mitt romney should have gathered enough support from republican party members to guarantee he will be the presidential candidate. he may declare he is concentrating on fighting president obama, particularly on the question of jobs. >> we need to have presidents to understand how this economy works. small business, middle size business, big business, i do, and i want to use that experience to get us back to work again. [applause] the ap news agency says mitt romney has clinched the nomination with a win in texas. let's get more on this now and we can speak to our corre

with if mitt romney is a genuine article or a vessel that will be used once he is in office. michael steele is the chairman of the republican party, howard fineman is editorial director of the media group and a msnbc political analyst. at the cpac conference, the anti-tax activist laid out in clear and unambiguous terms what the republican party expects from the president, whoever that happens to be. >> we're not auditions for fearless leader. we know what direction to go, we just need a president to sign this stuff. we don't need someone to think it up or design it. we have a house and senate, the leadership now for the modern conservative movement for the next 20 years will be coming out of the house and senate. pick a republican with enough working digits to handle a been and become president of the united states. >> that was the most shameless statement by the tax cutting right by what they need in the white house. someone to cut the taxes and stay out of the way of anyone else. i was in the room for that speech, and i thought, they really don't think they need a president. you may thin

is worth at least a $20 million donation to the romney campaign. president obama said he's not worri worried. >> marriage is the union of one man and one woman. >> one man and one woman. >> one man and one woman. >> this conversation has not gone away. >> president obama will attend an lgbt fund-raiser. >> independents will decide the election. >> 62% either favor same-sex marriage and civil unions. >> marriage is a relationship between one man and one woman. >> it seems like romney is fighting a 2004 campaign years too late. >> culture matters. >> america does not stand still. we look forward, not back. >> president obama launched a potential game changer today. >> today with the new video. >> it paints mot romney as greedy. >> the new two-minute ad. >> a full two minutes worth. >> airing in five swing states. >> workers from gst steel. it will run in five states, a company that went bankrupt after it was bought by bain capital. >> this is not the only way to do capitalism. >> this is an effective ad. >> they made as much money as they could. >> you see the faces of america. >> he w

florida is very likely to end up in the romney quam camp and ohio has got real problems, particularly white working-class voters for obama. if the republicans win those five states then all romney needs to do in order to win the white house is win new hampshire or pennsylvania or michigan or wisconsin or iowa or colorado or new mexico or nevada and he's president of the united states. >> and i think that's where we get into sort of these niche demographics and some of the issues. you've got -- again, if he cannot -- i agree with karl, he can win with 31% of the latino vote, hispanic vote, but it's tough to win those three -- colorado, those states out in the west with that dinkind of a number. he can win the presidency because of -- >> let me say one other thing. two people have problems with latinos -- mitt romney and barack obama. if you look at the decline in the latino support for approval of the president, it is at or above the national average for decline and has been consistently so. why? i've got a little bit of a hint in it in some american cross-roads focus groups recently i

is a relationship between one man and one woman. >> it seems like romney is fighting a 2004 campaign years too late. >> culture matters. >> america does not stand still. we look forward, not back. >> president obama launched a potential game changer today. >> today with the new video. >> it paints mot romney as greedy. >> the new two-minute ad. >> a full two minutes worth. >> airing in five swing states. >> workers from gst steel. it will run in five states, a company that went bankrupt after it was bought by bain capital. >> this is not the only way to do capitalism. >> this is an effective ad. >> they made as much money as they could. >> you see the faces of america. >> he worked against romney. >> no one thinks he is a great jobs creator. >> for someone takes the money out of your company -- >> we need more venture. >> leaves you bankrupt while they go off with millions. >> less vulture capitalism. >> not even as friends in the gop. >>> president obama's week began with this cover of news week, declaring obama as the first gay president to which new york post opinion writer tweeted over the week

. a reality show host goes birther. romney's response? lame. the obama response? ♪blackjack. mit and donald in vegas, baby. what could possibly go wrong? >> i don't agree with the people who support me and i guess they don't believe in everything i believe in but i need to get 50.1% or more and i am appreciateive to have the support of a lot of good people. >> mitt romney's spineless response if he -- when he was asked if he had any reservations on trump's birther cook along with billionair sheldon adelson romney officially locking up with a presumed win in the texas primary marking the first time a mormon will be the presidential nominee. even some republicans are questioning why romney would surround himself with this pack of rats. it's no mystery that romney will say or do anything to win. for more on the story, we turn to one of my favorites in washington eleanor clift to discuss her latest campaign book selecting a president, and with the mclaughlin group, number 1 opinion my dvr, long-time columnist with newsweek and the daily beast, eleanor, welco

, now, see you tomorrow. >> romney accuses president obama of being a "divider," and another g.o.p. contract is subtracted in the field. this is "special report." good morning, presidential nominee mitt romney says president obama's road map could take the country right down the path to an even worse economy. the obama administration and the campaign insist having been hand add worse than expected economy it is mending. the attack is amid reports of downturns in business hiring and orders for factory goods. here is carl cameron. >>carl: a woman-owned business in virginia romney charged president obama is extraordinarily disappointing political tactics that romney wanted could harm the economic vitality. >> he is attacking success. he is taken to dividing the american people. and he has taken to find, scapegoats for his failures, finding a way to explain why 3 1/2 years into his presidency this economy is still bumping along the bottom. >> he accused the president and democrats of using rhetoric so antibusiness that it could discourage and stunt growth. >> the economy is made up

. he's a finance co-share for the mitt romney campaign. he's one of the gazillionare donors. he's been active on issues surrounding gay rights. he's not been on the pro-gay rights side we reported on him and his political activities on this show. once in february and once again earlier this month. mr. van der sloot is the star of the new fox news hyped alternate reality conservative media scandal that makes sense to nobody outside the conservative media sphere. >> his business being attacked. >> he found himself listed on a obama campaign website. >> it posted the name of private citizen who is gave big money to support mitt romney and described those donors in less than flattering terms. >> flashing red sirens. fox news alert. private citizens, if you donate to the mitt romney campaign, the president of the united states is coming after you. to be clear, what fox news is talking about here is a blog item posted on april 20th at a website called keeping gop honest.com, which is part of the obama campaign. it profiles a number of people who are bankrolling mitt romney's effort to become

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> president obama telephones mitt romney, congratulates him for going over the top in the republican delegate count and over the top comments with supporter donald trump has created a distraction. you've heard trump question the birthplace in "the situation room," now romney is trying to move on. here's our national political correspondent, jim acosta. >> wolf, mitt romney has left las vegas, but donald trump is refusing to leave the campaign stage. >> americans are tired of being tired. >> now that he's crunched the number of delegates to win the gop nomination, it's victory lap time for mitt romney. get the checkered flag this new romney campaign video is all about the stars and stripes. >> we're united by one great, overwh overwhelming passion. we love america. we believe in america. >> romney got a call from the president congratulating the official gop nominee. the president said he looked forward with an important and healthy debate about america's future. the chat, according to the romney campaign was brief and cordial. just the opposit

right. well said, mr. carney. that does it for us on dylan ratigan. "hardball" up now. >>> using romney, let's play "hardball." >>> good evening, i'm chris matthews. in washington, leading off, tool of the taxpayers corporal to the neon cons. who is this man the republicans want as their president? is he deepful purpose or useful purpose? is he what norquist proposed, to put his signature on the tax cuts? would it be like w., mainly a mouth piece for the perineal hawks? is mitt romney the common carrier of the right wingers agenda? is there "there "there or just a destination. why did romney's openly gay spokesman have to quit? why else, he is openly gay. and the family values times were having nothing of it. >>> plus, hillary clinton and the drama in beijing over the blind chinese dissident. we have rarely seen in her four years of behind the scenes diplomacy, it is her chance to be visible, exquisite and right out front on the front pages if things go wrong. plus, why are republicans so frantic over the president's bin laden victory lap? simple, because the gop has been the national s

around now for chuck. >>> thank you, william. romney's rivals were right. they always said it would come down to texas, but instead of being down and out, texas gives romney enough delegates to clinch the nomination. and he's not the lone star in the news today. it's some down ballot results that are turning heads. we'll have more on that. >>> and romney raises cash with the number one birth certificate authenticity enthusiast. is this a distraction that romney can afford to have with less than five months to go before election day? >>> and from raising money to spending money, we're taking a deep dive into the scientific strategy that the obama campaign is using to make sure their message sticks inside your head kind of like the old days -- ♪ by menan ♪ >>> let's get to the first reads, four months, texas was going to be mitt romney's alamo, his rivals looked to the lone star state and its mammoth amount of 155 delegates as the place that they were going to turn this race around. >> we're going to be able to go compete in south carolina and florida and nevada and obviously in texas

. >> terrific. >> now it's time requester "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." >>> the romney campaign hasn't figured out how to talk about mitt romney's days of bain capital, but joe biden has. >> there's no leveling an attack dog. >> vice president biden is going to be chief attack dog. >> i resent the fact they think we're talking about envy. my mother and father dreamed as much as any rich guy dreamed. >> fdr message rings well and people likes it. >> who is going to do what it takes to put out the fire. >> see a fire in the distance. a prairie fire of debt. >> harsh now political rhetoric over the economy. >> prairie fire of debt. >> focusing on deficits and debt on the campaign trail. >> the fire in the distance. >> when he was governor he raised the debt by 15%. >> he makes the debt worse. >> which just adds to this the debt. >> every piece of this narrative is askew. >> the debt ceiling ended like a typical tarantino flick. casualties and blood were everywhere. >> everyone was hurt last summer. >> where is the president's plan. >> john boehner is bringing back the debt ceiling debat

with lawrence o'donnell. >> mitt romney actually said, quote, if i'm fortunate enough to become president, i'll care very keeply about the economy getting better in a big hurry which, of course means he really doesn't want the economy to get better now. >> round one of the general election air war has begun. >> the probe on the super pac. >> spending nearly $800,000 in five key battle ground states. >> can team obama define mitt romney as the capitalist. >> he'll give you the same thing he gave us. nothing. >> a romney campaign responded immediately. >> mitt romney's sector leadership team stepped in. releasing an online video called the american dream. >> 58% of americans believe the economy -- >> is going to be in a better place in a year from now. >> i will lead us out of this debt and spending inferno. >> romney is expected to deliver a debt in iowa. >> a prairie fire of debt. >> sweeping across iowa and across the nation. >> a year ago all we talked about was debt. talking about the doom and gloom, debt, debt, debt. >> i will lead us out of this debt. >> pro gay adoption one day. >> two

a mouth piece for the perineal hawks? is mitt romney the common carrier of the right wingers agenda? is there "there "there or just a destination. why did romney's openly gay spokesman have to quit? why else, he is openly gay. and the family values times were having nothing of it. >>> plus, hillary clinton and the drama in beijing over the blind chinese dissident. we have rarely seen in her four years of behind the scenes diplomacy, it is her chance to be visible, exquisite and right out front on the front pages if things go wrong. plus, why are republicans so frantic over the president's bin laden victory lap? simple, because the gop has been the national security daddy party for last 60 years and can't afford to lose ground. should they give that up and what's left? hope the economy tanks for them? let me finish tonight with whether mitt romney is the genuine article or the vessel. the money people the right wing people intend to use once he's in office. we begin with mitt romney. michael steel, chairman of the republican party, probably still should be. howard fineman didn't thin

♪ >>> let's get to the first reads, four months, texas was going to be mitt romney's alamo, his rivals looked to the lone star state and its mammoth amount of 155 delegates as the place that they were going to turn this race around. >> we're going to be able to go compete in south carolina and florida and nevada and obviously in texas and -- >> i'm very proud that rick perry is campaigning for me and he believes we'll get 155 delegates in texas at the end of may. governor perry who's supporting me thinks that eventually when texas votes it will be 155-0 in texas delegates. >> ronald reagan didn't get out of the race. he was able to stand tall in may and win the state of texas which we have every intention of doing. >> i thought that little trip down memory lane was worth it since last night it was texas that put romney officially over the top. at this hour romney has 1,183 delegates in his column and so we can call him now the projected republican nominee. >>> also in texas last night, the bigger race was the senate race, lut governor david dewhurst who got stamped with the establishme

day for mitt romney finally clenching the delegates needed to be the gop nominee. >> this is a big day. 1,144 we finally got there. >> donald trump stole the spot light dominating the air waves by reigniting talk of the president's birth certificate. trump's central position highlights how unprecedented the need for big dollar donors is in 2012. >> this is really been a special day and a special evening. it's been amazing the amount of money that was raised. >> joining me now columnist for the las vegas sun and clarence page. good morning, gentleman. >> the last i read you had the goal at 2 million and at that point had commitments of 657,000. how did it go last night? >> they are saying, chris, that they got over the $2 million mark and they had a star studded cast there from the republican establishment including prominent names in the casino industry. the two loudest critics of president obama. they bundled probably more than $100,000 each. so did lorenzo who had station casinos. they are well known republicans. you had some other gaming executives bundle a lot of money and business

super pac is jumping into the fight hit be romney on bain in five swing states with this. >> he's promised us the same thing he's promised the united states. he'll give you the same thing he gave us. nothing. >> nothing. the obama campaign's goal is to make this a choice election and make mitt romney unacceptable. >>> also, jp morgan chase's $2 billion losses, a lot of people saying, i told you so. barney frank, as in dodd/frank, has been fighting the republicans for years saying banks like chase need to be regulated so we don't have to bail them out. barney frank joins us tonight. plus the filibusters is a routine use by republicans to require 66 to get anything done. in other words, getting nothing done. how about get rid of it. and mitt romney gets a very low key endorsement from -- can you keep a secret? w. that's in the side show. we begin with my thoughts on why we should junk the filibuster. we begin with mitt romney and bain capital, however. susan page, bureau chief of usa today and the director of the "washington post" media group as well as the political analyst. yest

, brooke, thank you. >>> mitt romney is moving on and close to the presidential nomination. they keep blocking the spotlight with yet more controversial comments today. we'll update you. >>> a leading cause of death in latin america. does the scary parasitic disease pose a growing threat here in the united states? >>> and a runway emergency in chicago where a giant cargo jet collides with an airliner. we'll bring you the very latest. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> president obama telephones mitt romney, congratulates him for going over the top in the republican delegate count and over the top comments with supporter donald trump has created a distraction. you've heard trump question the birthplace in "the situation room," now romney is trying to move on. here's our national political correspondent, jim acosta. >> wolf, mitt romney has left las vegas, but donald trump is refusing to leave the campaign stage. >> americans are tired of being tired. >> now that he's crunched the number of delegates to win the gop nomination, it'

romney? >> we don't quit, we don't give up. >> governor, would you go as far as rush limbaugh did yesterday and say this is the first president in modern time who will run a campaign against capitalism? >> well, it certainly sounds like that's what he's doing. >> the reason is simple. romney is not a conservative. >> it seems -- >> impossible. >> plain foolishness. he seems to ratchet up. >> former governor of the great state of massachusetts. ♪ don't stop believing >> we begin with the specter of mitt romney's first day in the white house. and as the presumed republican nominee releases a new video featuring all the actions he would take within ten minutes of taking office. when i say actions as regards to mr. romney, i obviously mean empty bromides and attacks on the current administration. if you don't believe me, take a look. >> day one. president romney announces deficit reductions ending the obama era of big government. helping secure our kids' futures. president romney stands up to china on trade and demands they play by the rules. president romney begins repealing job ki

strategy pushed by the romney campaign and karl rove may sound like a plan that doesn't fly. we'll break it down in our deep dive. good morning from washington. it is thursday, may 31st, 2012. this is "the daily rundown." i'm chuck todd. good stew for you today. my first reads of the morning for now the presidential campaign is being waged if you will on republican turf. six critical battleground states obama carried in 2008 but george w. bush won in 2004. five of the six actually are ones that bush won in 2000. last week we had polls showing the president with small leads in three of those states -- ohio, florida, and virginia. now a new nbc/marist poll showed the race even closer in states like iowa, colorado, nevada where it is a virtual tie. in nevada the president leads mitt romney among registered voters, 48-46. colorado the obama lead is one. 46-45. in iowa it is tied at 44-44. i'll have more on that later. the last time we polled iowa in late november ahead of the republican caucuses, the president led by seven points. we just look at voters who tell us they have an excellent or

romney. >> i resent the fact that think we're talking about envy. my mother and father believed that if my brother or sister wanted to be a millionaire, they could be a millionaire. my mother and father dreamed as much as any rich guy dreams. they don't get us! they don't get who we are! >> then the vice president zeroed in on bain capital. >> romney made sure the guys on top got to play by a separate set of rules. he ran up massive debts and the middle class lost. and, folks, he thinks that experience is going to help our economy? let's take a look. look, with these guys passed, want you to think about what he'll do as president. >> after mitt romney's campaign staff went so far as to try to physically block reporters from approaching the candidate on the rope line in florida today, mitt romney chose to appear in the friendly confines of a conservative blogger's radio show to defend his bain record. >> they said, oh gosh, governor romney at bain capital closed down a steel factory. but the problem, of course, is the steel factory closed down two years after i left bain capital.

. nbc news is projecting that mitt romney is the winner in texas and importantly, that he will win enough delegates in texas tonight to clinch the republican nomination for president. texas has ended up having a really important role to play in the presidential race. we will no longer after tonight have to call mitt romney the defacto nominee. thanks to texas tonight, mitt romney will be the republican party's presidential projected nominee full stop. as i said, this is not a surprise. once everybody else was out of the race and before everybody was out of race, you can do the math easy. you can figure out mitt romney would be clinching the nomination and it's likely to happen tonight. you can figure out in advance that mitt romney was going to clinch in texas. john mccain clinched the nomination in texas as well. this is the readily evident milestone you can see coming from a long way off. given they knew this was going to happen, how did the romney campaign plan for it. how did they plan to mark this big day? how did they plan this win that locked up the nomination for their cand

to tell us what they're going to do. will romney show us his vision? or will obama inspire the country with teases of what's to come? and finally, newsman, he's seen a half century of presidencies. if someone like truman, ike and ford were deeply rooted, what about the stranger sorts like lyndon johnson and nixon? how did they get there. we'll ask the man himself. dan rather. hi, i'm chris matthews. with us today hd nets dan rather. katty kay, nbc's kelly o do nell and anne cline. barack obama's trip to afghanistan signing that agreement to partner until 2024 was enormous. republicans applauded, taking the issue off the table. friday's job report with a slight drop in the unemployment rate but disappointing figures in news job. dan, the president can't win on foreign policy, people say. so this election is going to be about the economy. >> absolutely. within the job, what people say is true. unless we're in a new war, if mitt romney can make it all about jobs, jobs, jobs, and stay on message, obama could lose it. chris: let me go to katty on this one. everybody reads this guy. he's the

on mitt romney beyond bain to his record as the governor of massachusetts. the president and governor romney are not on the campaign trail today but a hint of that new strategy came during a campaign visit for the president in iowa last night. >> governor romney has made his experience as a financial ceo. the entire rationale of his candidacy for president. he doesn't really talk about what he did in massachusetts. but he does talk about being a business guy. >> and for his part, governor romney has said he is proud of his tenure as governor of massachusetts. listen to a claim made by reverend al sharpton. >> he is the official portrait of romney as governor. and if you look closely at the lower right corner, you will see a folder with a medical symbol on the cover symbolizing his universal health care law. he was so proud of it, he put it on his official portrait. now he tries to act as though he never did it at all. >> let me bring in our "news nation" political panel for this friday before the holiday. msnbc contributor and democratic strategist, jimmy williams as well as christoph

supervisor calls out the republican governor in florida. >> i need to get 50.1% or more. >> mitt romney is standing by his birther while donald trump goes on another out of control rant about the president. >> there are many people that don't agree with that birth certificate. >> michael eric dyson on mitt romney's lack of courage to cut ties with trump. >>> the ghost of ronald reagan is make an appearance in wisconsin. >> win this one. >> we'll tell you why john doe and big bucks could win this election for the democrats. >>> good to have you with us tonight. thanks for watching. the one thing about the republicans, that's masters at doing stuff when nobody else is watching. you need to watch this story. on the heel offense a national holiday honoring those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country, here comes are radical governor who is spearheading a version of democracy. governor rick scott's voter purge is tossing eligible voters under the rolls who are under a deadline to prove they are eligible to vote. bill nicola, he's war hero, he's a veteran. he's one example. he's a 91

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